Paul Jackson wrote:
> Paul M wrote:
>> Here's an alternative for consideration, below.
> 
> I don't see the alternative -- I just see my patch, with the added
> blurbage:
> 
>   #12 - /usr/local/google/home/menage/kernel9/linux/kernel/cpuset.c ====
>   # action=edit type=text
> 
> Should I be increasing my caffeine intake?
> 

Bah. Trying again:


Here's an alternative for consideration, below. The main differences are:

- currently against an older kernel with pre-cgroup cpusets, so it uses tasklist_lock and do_each_thread(); a cgroup version would use cgroup iterators as yours does

- solves the race between sched_setaffinity() and update_cpumask() by having sched_setaffinity() check for changes to cpuset_cpus_allowed() after doing set_cpus_allowed()

- guarantees to only act on each process once (so guarantees forward progress, in the absence of fork bombs. (And could be adapted to handle fork bombs too)

- uses a priority heap to pick the processes to act on, based on start time

- uses lock_cpu_hotplug() to avoid races with CPU hotplug; sadly I think this is gone in more recent kernels, so some other synchronization would be needed



        Cause writes to cpuset "cpus" file to update cpus_allowed for
        member tasks:

        - collect batches of tasks under tasklist_lock and then call
          set_cpus_allowed() on them outside the lock (since this can
          sleep).

        - add a simple generic priority heap type to allow efficient
          collection of batches of tasks to be processed without
          duplicating or missing any tasks in subsequent batches.

        - avoid races with hotplug events via lock_cpu_hotplug()

        - make "cpus" file update a no-op if the mask hasn't changed

        - fix race between update_cpumask() and sched_setaffinity() by
          making sched_setaffinity() to post-check that it's not
          running on any cpus outside cpuset_cpus_allowed().



 include/linux/prio_heap.h |   56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/cpuset.c           |  103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/sched.c            |   13 +++++
 lib/Makefile              |    2
 lib/prio_heap.c           |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- /dev/null	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/include/linux/prio_heap.h	2007-10-12 16:43:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_PRIO_HEAP_H
+#define _LINUX_PRIO_HEAP_H
+
+/*
+ * Simple insertion-only static-sized priority heap containing
+ * pointers, based on CLR, chapter 7
+ */
+
+#include <linux/gfp.h>
+
+/**
+ * struct ptr_heap - simple static-sized priority heap
+ * @ptrs - pointer to data area
+ * @max - max number of elements that can be stored in @ptrs
+ * @size - current number of valid elements in @ptrs (in the range 0..@size-1
+ */
+struct ptr_heap {
+	void **ptrs;
+	int max;
+	int size;
+};
+
+/**
+ * heap_init - initialize an empty heap with a given memory size
+ * @heap: the heap structure to be initialized
+ * @size: amount of memory to use in bytes
+ * @gfp_mask: mask to pass to kmalloc()
+ */
+extern int heap_init(struct ptr_heap *heap, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
+/**
+ * heap_free - release a heap's storage
+ * @heap: the heap structure whose data should be released
+ */
+void heap_free(struct ptr_heap *heap);
+
+/**
+ * heap_insert - insert a value into the heap and return any overflowed value
+ * @heap: the heap to be operated on
+ * @p: the pointer to be inserted
+ * @gt: comparison operator, which should implement "greater than"
+ *
+ * Attempts to insert the given value into the priority heap. If the
+ * heap is full prior to the insertion, then the resulting heap will
+ * consist of the smallest @max elements of the original heap and the
+ * new element; the greatest element will be removed from the heap and
+ * returned. Note that the returned element will be the new element
+ * (i.e. no change to the heap) if the new element is greater than all
+ * elements currently in the heap.
+ */
+extern void *heap_insert(struct ptr_heap *heap, void *p,
+			 int (*gt)(void *, void *));
+
+
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_PRIO_HEAP_H */
==== linux/kernel/cpuset.c
--- linux/kernel/cpuset.c	2007-10-05 17:46:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/kernel/cpuset.c	2007-10-12 16:24:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/prio_heap.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -839,6 +840,36 @@
 	unlock_cpu_hotplug();
 }
 
+static int inline started_after_time(struct task_struct *t1,
+				     struct timespec *time,
+				     struct task_struct *t2)
+{
+	int start_diff = timespec_compare(&t1->start_time, time);
+	if (start_diff > 0) {
+		return 1;
+	} else if (start_diff < 0) {
+		return 0;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * Arbitrarily, if two processes started at the same
+		 * time, we'll say that the lower pointer value
+		 * started first. Note that t2 may have exited by now
+		 * so this may not be a valid pointer any longer, but
+		 * that's fine - it still serves to distinguish
+		 * between two tasks started (effectively)
+		 * simultaneously.
+		 */
+		return t1 > t2;
+	}
+}
+
+static int inline started_after(void *p1, void *p2)
+{
+	struct task_struct *t1 = p1;
+	struct task_struct *t2 = p2;
+	return started_after_time(t1, &t2->start_time, t2);
+}
+
 /*
  * Call with manage_mutex held.  May take callback_mutex during call.
  */
@@ -846,7 +877,12 @@
 static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
 {
 	struct cpuset trialcs;
-	int retval, cpus_unchanged;
+	int retval, i;
+	struct task_struct *g, *p, *dropped;
+	/* Never dereference latest_task, since it's not refcounted */
+	struct task_struct *latest_task = NULL;
+	struct ptr_heap heap;
+	struct timespec latest_time = { 0, 0 };
 
 	/* top_cpuset.cpus_allowed tracks cpu_online_map; it's read-only */
 	if (cs == &top_cpuset)
@@ -862,11 +898,72 @@
 	retval = validate_change(cs, &trialcs);
 	if (retval < 0)
 		return retval;
-	cpus_unchanged = cpus_equal(cs->cpus_allowed, trialcs.cpus_allowed);
+	if (cpus_equal(cs->cpus_allowed, trialcs.cpus_allowed))
+		return 0;
+	retval = heap_init(&heap, PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (retval)
+		return retval;
+
 	mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
 	cs->cpus_allowed = trialcs.cpus_allowed;
 	mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
-	if (is_cpu_exclusive(cs) && !cpus_unchanged)
+ again:
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	/*
+	 * Scan tasks in the cpuset, and update the cpumasks of any
+	 * that need an update. Since we can't call set_cpus_allowed()
+	 * while holding tasklist_lock, gather tasks to be processed
+	 * in a heap structure. If the statically-sized heap fills up,
+	 * overflow tasks that started later, and in future iterations
+	 * only consider tasks that started after the latest task in
+	 * the previous pass. This guarantees forward progress and
+	 * that we don't miss any tasks
+	 */
+	heap.size = 0;
+	do_each_thread(g, p) {
+		/* Only affect tasks from this cpuset */
+		if (p->cpuset != cs)
+			continue;
+		/* Only affect tasks that don't have the right cpus_allowed */
+		if (cpus_equal(p->cpus_allowed, cs->cpus_allowed))
+			continue;
+		/*
+		 * Only process tasks that started after the last task
+		 * we processed
+		 */
+		if (!started_after_time(p, &latest_time, latest_task))
+			continue;
+		dropped = heap_insert(&heap, p, &started_after);
+		if (dropped == NULL) {
+			get_task_struct(p);
+		} else if (dropped != p) {
+			get_task_struct(p);
+			put_task_struct(dropped);
+		}
+	} while_each_thread(g, p);
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (heap.size) {
+		for (i = 0; i < heap.size; i++) {
+			struct task_struct *p = heap.ptrs[i];
+			if (i == 0) {
+				latest_time = p->start_time;
+				latest_task = p;
+			}
+			set_cpus_allowed(p, cs->cpus_allowed);
+			put_task_struct(p);
+		}
+		/*
+		 * If we had to process any tasks at all, scan again
+		 * in case some of them were in the middle of forking
+		 * children that didn't notice the new cpumask
+		 * restriction.  Not the most efficient way to do it,
+		 * but it avoids having to take callback_mutex in the
+		 * fork path
+		 */
+		goto again;
+	}
+	heap_free(&heap);
+	if (is_cpu_exclusive(cs))
 		update_cpu_domains(cs);
 	return 0;
 }
==== linux/kernel/sched.c
--- linux/kernel/sched.c	2007-10-11 20:07:17.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c	2007-10-11 22:04:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -4411,8 +4411,21 @@
 
 	cpus_allowed = cpuset_cpus_allowed(p);
 	cpus_and(new_mask, new_mask, cpus_allowed);
+ again:
 	retval = set_cpus_allowed(p, new_mask);
 
+	if (!retval) {
+		cpus_allowed = cpuset_cpus_allowed(p);
+		if (!cpus_subset(new_mask, cpus_allowed)) {
+			/*
+			 * We must have raced with a concurrent cpuset
+			 * update. Just reset the cpus_allowed to the
+			 * cpuset's cpus_allowed
+			 */
+			new_mask = cpus_allowed;
+			goto again;
+		}
+	}
 out_unlock:
 	put_task_struct(p);
 	unlock_cpu_hotplug();
==== linux/lib/Makefile
--- linux/lib/Makefile	2007-10-15 14:09:45.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/lib/Makefile	2007-10-12 16:29:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 lib-y := errno.o ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
 	 bust_spinlocks.o rbtree.o radix-tree.o dump_stack.o \
 	 idr.o div64.o int_sqrt.o bitmap.o extable.o prio_tree.o \
-	 sha1.o
+	 sha1.o prio_heap.o
 
 lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
 
==== linux/lib/prio_heap.c
--- /dev/null	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/lib/prio_heap.c	2007-10-12 16:30:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Simple insertion-only static-sized priority heap containing
+ * pointers, based on CLR, chapter 7
+ */
+
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/prio_heap.h>
+
+int heap_init(struct ptr_heap *heap, size_